Paul Chubb added: “More of our farm land under tarmac, these two companies do a do more to speed up global warming than any other fast food crowd.

“McDonalds cut down rainforests to grow grass to feed cattle that go to make their dreadful burgers, costa pay peanuts to the coffee growers for their coffee beans then charge the earth for a cup of something that tastes like sweet milk powder.

“Then their customers for the most part throw the plastic containers all over the place, shareholders make lots of money and the world suffers.”

The proposed park includes a McDonald's, Costa, Home Bargains and Iceland (Image: Quora)

Opposition

The messages share the views of the Saltash Town Council who have already opposed the plans.

The plans have been submitted to Cornwall Council (Image: Quora)

A council spokesman wrote: "The positioning of the McDonald's unit at the entrance to the site and the limited and potentially insufficient capacity for queuing customer vehicles was a major concern.

"This risked vehicles being unable to enter the proposed retail park leading to queuing along Gilston Road and potentially back onto Callington Road and even the roundabout.

"This would cause major congestion and lead to major inconveniences to the numerous other businesses on the estate."

It added that the landscaping scheme was inadequate and would have a significant visual impact on the area.

"The Callington Road frontage is a prominent entrance to the town," the statement said.

The plans include 185 parking spaces (Image: Quora)

"The emerging neighbourhood plan intends to create an attractive and well landscaped 'boulevard' from Carkeel roundabout into the town centre.

"This is critical in maintaining the viability of the town centre."

Positives

Other readers, however, slammed those in oppositions to the plans, including Saltash Town Council.

Dan Coombs posted: “People moan about lack of development. Development happens. People moan about what’s going there,” while Lynda Hollister said: “Surely the town and area would benefit from improvement on the way it looks now.

“Unless the old fashioned views of the Council move forward that piece of ground will be an eyesore in a few years.

“The area could be improved just with bit more thought and not such a harsh rejection.”

Carol Nicol added: “Not fair – Home Bargains going to Saltash and not Plymouth. Still saves a trip to Kingsteignton I suppose.”

Zoe Cole also said: “ Home bargains!!! About time we had one down here.”

What else could be at the site?

The drawings include an additional commercial unit, which has not yet been allocated to a retailer, but the developer states it could be occupied by Lidl.

The application reads: “The "Class A1 foodstore [is] to be operated by Iceland as ‘the food Warehouse’, with a gross floor area of 1,194 sq m and a net sales area of 851 sq m.

"The Iceland Food Warehouse format is a new concept in food retail being rolled out nationwide by Iceland. There are currently 47 of these stores operating nationally all of which trade from established retail park locations.

"The format of Iceland Food Warehouse stores differ from traditional Iceland stores, such as those currently trading in Cornwall.

"Traditional Iceland stores generally comprise around 465 square metres (5,000 square feet) of floorspace. In contrast, The Food Warehouse trade from between 929-1,394 square metres (10-15,000 square feet) and are based on a top quality ‘warehouse style’ fit out.

"The Iceland foodstore replaces the previously proposed Aldi store on this site.

“Given this is a smaller format foodstore, the revised scheme now includes a speculative A1 retail unit."